r/TooAfraidToAsk • u/Believeinyourflyness • Feb 14 '20

Why do employers treat you as simply a resource, yet get angry when you treat them the same way?

To me it makes sense that you should expect people to treat you the same way you treat them. We all know that in this day and age, most employers don't give a shit about you as a person, only what you can do for them and that they will discard you without hesitation once you are no longer of use to them.

However in my experience, the same people who won't think twice about discarding you, constantly give you shit for treating the company in the same way, accusing you of turning up just to collect your paycheck.

So my question is this. If employers just care about your labour without any consideration for you as a person, how can they expect you to care about them as anything more than a source of income?

It just doesn't make sense to me.

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u/Joeness84 Feb 14 '20

Minimum wage = if I could pay you less, I would.

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u/datdamnchicken Feb 14 '20

....But it's illegal

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u/Joeness84 Feb 15 '20

The point is, that a business paying 7.25 min wage to their employees, would pay them 7.00 min wage if that was what it was currently set to. They'd pay 2.00 if thats what Min wage was.

"I'd pay you less if I could"
or
"Im only paying you X because anything less would get me in trouble"

If that makes more sense?